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#english people especially english people affiliated with oxford or any of them elite universities will never not be weird about
aiteanngaelach · 11 months
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Image ID: a screenshot of the hiberno-english entry in encyclopedia.com that has 3,967,691 views and has the logo of the oxford university press. it reads: HIBERNO-ENGLISH. A VARIETY of English in Ireland, used mainly by less educated speakers whose ancestral tongue was IRISH GAELIC. It is strongest in and around the Gaeltachts (Irish-speaking regions) and in rural areas. It preserves certain Gaelic... Screenshot ends. End ID
I literally made this same post last year and it's still up like. "spoken by the lesser educated" it's spoken by almost everyone in Ireland you weird classist english fucks. colonialist british empire mentality alive and well i see... Hiberno-english is literally so much nicer sounding than english english anyway. "ancestral tongue" "Irish gaelic" Labhraím GAEILGE inniu tusa liúdramán
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